Quotes About Contemplation

We could all do with some silence, just sitting back in a dark theater and watching humans living and working and discovering their affinities without any words.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.

Please also feel free to read this case a few times as it may take a while to sink in.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

I need a long, cold winter.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Do I have political heroes? Probably not wise to.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Whosoever wisely examines the works of God will speedily discover what is next to be done.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.